[1459] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: So what is the answer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Hayward)
Wed Oct 9 12:12:40 1991
From: J.Hayward@utexas.edu (Jeff Hayward)
To: edtjda@magic322.chron.com (Joe Abernathy)
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 91 11:11:37 CDT
Cc: comp-academic-freedom-talk@eff.org, com-priv@psi.com,
In-Reply-To: <9110081829.AA13951@magic322.chron.com>; from "Joe Abernathy" at Oct 8, 91 1:29 pm
Ahh, Mr. Abernathy's missives arrive with all the elegance of a SCUD
missile. Inaccurate and of no journalistic significance, they are
only capable of inflaming public opinion and causing limited damage
to undeserving populations.
Without bothering to correct him point by point, I'll just state
categorically that Joe hasn't managed to get a single correct
statement in the paragraph below.
>It took about two days for them to have a "major
>porno incident" that ended with them shutting down
>the news feed; and for now, students will not be
>allowed their own accounts. Obviously, shutting down
>usenet doesn't bar access to the lively material.
Also, in response to Tom Grundner's concern for TENET's access
control capabilities, I would reassure him that we find Kerberos
authentication and AFS access control technologies to be both strong
and flexible. Frankly, anything less would be insufficient.
--Jeff Hayward
